Sunday Morning News from the dining room table

[Vince]

Good Morning it is Sunday the 31 day of August 2008, the last day of August, where diod the time go ? seams just like yesterDay we were shoveling snow off the drive way & now its time to rake the leaves all over again, it has been warm but dry here in da Burgh & now the leaves are falling from my maple trees & the grass is a crunchy brown, no need to cut it , I am on a well so I dont water my grass, , it just makes it grow anyhow, I then it needs to be cut, well if you dont water , it browns out & you dont need to cut it , hey works for me , I wouldnt mind just paving the entire yard & paint it green !
the political campains are now in full swing, & the Pa. attny General is out in forse arristing crooked polititions , our local former state rep & the wife of the state senator are all in hot water , as well as many other local councilmen & managers , it is a crying shame that people we elect to office do things to line there pockets with the tax money that belongs to all of us, I guess there is no shame in stealing anymore . the Jails are over crowded the streets are filled with drug dealers & hookers , this area is just going to the bottom of the pile of trash, I am in a rural area, the guy next to me has cows in his pasture ( and an electrict fence to keep me away from the VEAL hahahaha ) I havent seen much in the way of change here but in the towns that were the heart of the steel making industry, the decline has realy hit bottom, rusting empty factorys dot the landscape , we DONT make anything here anymore , Manufacturing is the Key to a good econemy , Make something from nothing & sell it, thats the basic building block of an econemy , make it better faster & cheeper than anyone one else & BINGO the cash will flow in , you pay better for workers & they are happy, they spend the hard earned cash & the community builds, first there will be a baker & a butcher, soon a taylor & a builder will be in the area, then a paving company & furniture builder soon a jewlry shop will open , hair dressers & barbers , it is called PROSPERTY , a Community , but when the people we elect to run the government screw us it is time to start all over again, I am convinved that no matter who you are if you ever get into any elected office sooner or later you will be compermising your ethical thinking , fix a parking ticket for some one then it getting you Brother in law to do a little work for the township & he kickes back a little of the contract to you & before you know it you on the front page of the newspaper with a front & profile shot with Numbers under the name ( so far I havent run for any political office ) but with all the heads falling off sooner or later it will trickle down to a run off election between me & my wife, were are not regestered to the same political party so our votes cancil each others out all the time ! hahahaha
well enough of the politcal BS , lets shift gears & go for the finer things in life Food, coffee cigars & whisky ! , well what more can be said about that ? I like them all, & if your a regular reader you will now that the order in which they all fall is constantly changing, , I can get along with just 2 of them BUT all 4 make life a celebration
Breakfast this morning was my rendition of the egg mcMuffin, witch started out as a fast food eggs benidict ..... well my version is to butter & then Grill the English muffin , add a slice of jarlsburg cheese to each half , the bacon gets tossed on with the tomato ( no lettuce , then it would be a BLT with egg & cheese) now I scramble the egg & get it on the cheese asap & let the hot egg melt into the cheese , add some hot peppers & BINGO , its Breakfast on a BUN, B .O .B ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
I have a nice pair or T Bones in the chill chest , they will hit the grill later this afternoon, along with some corn on the cob & it will be grilled along with a yam or 2 , hey its summer why cook in the house when the grill is just outside the door & a cigar is in the ashtry, gotta do what you gotta do hahaha
I was sitting at the bar sipping a scotch last friday afternoon ( hey big suprize there hahahaha ) when Senator McCain introduced his new running mate, & I looked up & saw Tina Fay from Saturday Night live , is this a joke I thought , maybe the TV is on Comidy Central But then I realised this was the real thing, hey John you picked a great one for the late night TV pundants . NOW the democratic party, I think is suffering from buyers remorse all of a sudden, well no matter who gets in this November we will set a First for the country , electing a woman VP or a black man as president, you know i just dont like to use the term black man or woman, we are ALL people , race has no meaning , none, we all have the same number of bones in our body the same number of teeth , the blood type means more than the race of the person giving or getting it , , we are all HUMAN , lets let it go at that, DNA is the finger print of everyone, & everyone is slightly different, even identical twins have some differences be it so slight , i have a pair of cousins , & it is easy to tell which twin is witch just by looking , when thay are standing side by side , no problem , it is when they are apart its hard to tell, as she is just a weee bit shorter than him hahahaha
I will be roasting some coffee this afternoon, I have a little bit of Columbian that I plan on taking to the second crack for about half the bag & the other half will be just after the first crack, , give them a toss 7 see if it is able to be tasted , if the darker roast will over power the lighter one will it make a good blend? who knows , the proof will be in the MUG about wendsday !

the kids down the street have set up a box in front of the shed next door to me , there is a carrot on the ground & a stick tied to a string holding up the front of the box they are tring to catch the rabbit who is living under the shed, , what they are going to do with it when & if they catch it will be headline news in the elementry school paper ! , I gave them a set of lawn chairs to sit on & a lot more string to pull the stick out with as they were just about 10 feet from the "trap" so now they are about 40 feet & sitting in the shade with a radio & a big glass of lemonaid ~~~ watching for the baby bunny !

SCHOOL is back & the kids at the bus stop are noisy in the morning looks like I will need to adjust my schedual & get pants on sooner in the morning hahahaha

I am back on the quest of the perfect morning cigar Nothing has been able to replace the Don Carlos #3 for many years now but I have a new contender in taste but it is the wrong size , I do enjoy the corona size in the morning BUT I might be changing to a Butera Vintage maduro Robusto, , I am not sure as yet & I will need to study this into a lot more detail , reserach , it is a never ending battle to get to the final answer , but over the years it has been a matter of taste, what I love you might not like , & what you like I might not, so we are all wired differntly & thats whay there are so many brands & sozes, thats why there is single malts & blends

thats about all i have this week
enjoy, Vince

[sofaman]

Reading your post has become a Sunday morning ritchual for me and I look forward to reading it every week. Thanks for posting Vince you make Sundays better!!!

[Vince]

Glad to help make your sundays better, stop at the shop anytime !

[Vince]

Good morning it is Sunday the 7th of Sept. 2008 .... labor day has come & gone the kids are back in school & the nights are getting cooler & longer the sun is setting sooner & comming up later , & it will till the 21st of december , or some time about then , I am tooooo lazy to go look at the calander to see if its the 20th or the 21st , H3LL it might be the 22nd for all I know , but at that time of the year its cold out & I dont sit outside & worry about the season , winter , fall , spring what ever it can snow anytime , even in summer if your high enough........................ in the mountains ( NO not of booze , elevation ) you twit ! any way , we all know in winter its cold unless you live anyplace south of the frost line, & I havent been that far south in a long time , da burgh gets cold mid November & stays that way till mid march , not that there arnt a few nice days in there , I remember one year back in the late 60's I had the top down on the convertable Christmas day, well that was booze , it was snowing but I had a heater in the old Corvair Spyder Ragtop , so down came the roof 60 MPH on the highway heading into the burgh to see some play or something, had my Peacoat on & was feeling no pain , JUST HIGH ON LIFE hahahaha , its a blast driving in the snow with the top down , the heater was cranked up to the max with all the fumes you needed to put the top down hahahaha
Dammm how did I end up with that train of thought? I have no idea , I just sit here & type what I am thinking about, maybe I need to go back to sleep for a few hours & start this all over again ! hahaha No way man you have got to get the BS NOW , when its still fresh hahahaha,

well it was a good week at the shop, I did close on Monday but tuesday made up for the closing on monday , it was a BUSY day, But WED. Dammmm what a let down , I was hoping to do well but dammm i could have phoned it in , S L O W was the name of the game that day I think I might just cut my wed. hours to close at 6 PM not 9 PM, I have a guy comming in at 5 staying till 9 , but last wed. his total sales were ZERO , BUT 2 .........21 buck cigars got smoked , I think I gotta have a talk with that BOY !


Well the political conventions are over, ....................... if this is the BEST & the Brightest this country has to offer?????????? what are we in for , thats all I have to say about the R. D & Ind.

OK , lets get into the liquor cabnet , I pulled the cork on a Keg strength Glenfarclas , 120 proof .... the jury is still out on this one, is it worth the extra bucks , or is it just a high priced dram with a little extra Kick, , I dont drink for the effect , I do it for the taste , just like I smoke cigars , for the taste, & today all I had was ONE stick & 20 year old Petite corona sent to me by UNCLE FIDEL , I was busy all day & never did get to fire up anything else , it was a Honey DUE list today, bank, grocerys ,mall & all the BS that is associated with spending the day with the wife, short trip no time to enjoy a cigar so after we left the house i was never in the car more than 5 minutes at a time & back out & into a store, well I just never had the time to set fire to anything, it would need to stay in the car & go out , relights are Ok for some smokes but the stuff I had in my 3 finger case was the stuff you just dont was to chance on a relight , I was going to fire up my Last Casa Fuente some time today , But I never got to it , I had a Pepin black lable in the case right next to it & 15 year old Bahia Maduro from Costa Rico , well the only good thing about it is I still have all 3 !
I will be firing up the grill some time later , we have a set of T bones , some fresh picked corn( right now its still in the field ) cant get it much fresher that this, , got to wait till the farmer heads off to church before I go pick it hahahaha , I will also set a Yam on the grill along with a summer squash , & yes I will pick it with the corn hahaha.... , everything will go on the grill, , a LOW slow heat for the spuds & veggies , then pour the coals to it for the beef, burn the snot out of hers , well done please ... yea right , & wisper the word HEAT on both side of my hunk of beef .................... yea baby 138/140F internal temp on a hunk of beef for me ,,,,,she was hoping for 165/170 range . Not for me thats way to well done for me , 145 is streching it for me , thats on the verge of DOGFOOD , 155 F, forget it , give it to the mutt ! ............ 38 years together & she still cant see that all the flavor is in the RARE beef , never tuff, , & she chews & chews on that hunk of shoe leather week after week, I give up , I just make it the way she wants it & let her think its good ! hahahaha

the boys were here thursday, 15 wings , a 14 inch pizza & 18 ravolli , & salad hey dont forget the garlic bread , they were happy , I did manage to score one wing & a slice , Barb got 2 slices but no wings , I never did get a taste of the ravolli, Dont know if Barb did or Not hahahaha ?
they left a bag of Kettle cooked chips, thick sliced & CRISPY little s.o.b.'s
I am enjoying the snap of them still, , deep fryed in peanut oil, , just a touch of kosher salt , NO dip needed , just great potato & oil flavor , a little salt , dammmmmm all I need is a Beer , But none in the house , or the fridge, mabe its time for a run to the corner tavern> dammmm not open yet , got to hold that thought till MONDAY morning , & besides this local watering hole is a little to red neck for me, NO Good beer just BUD & MILLER LITE on tap & no dark beer in the cooler , No scotch in the place at all let alone a single malt, so i stay out of the place & drive right past it to go to a place that will cater to my needs , few...... but why drink the cheep stuff when there is better to be had ?

we got our pipes in this past week & have sold a few all ready, Fathers day & Christmas are the only times we sell them but this batch is going to be gone before Thanksgiving !, nothing expencive everything is below 50 bucks , the humidors are starting to move also, I guess the economic stimulas checks are still hitting here & there !@ hahahaha
I plan on sitting in the Qtr.Deck till its time to cook, Barb will spend the day with the sunday paper & will will enjoy the QUIET ! I spent all day saturday with her & i dont think I got 3 sentences in with out getting interupped


ahhhhhh yes PIECE & QUIET or is it PEACE & QUIET

Enjoy, Vince

[Vince]

Good morning, it is Sunday , 14 Sept. 08 ................ it has been raining here for the past 2 days but nothing like Texas is getting , the grass was all burt out from the lack of water but now it is a lush green & needs cut , dammmmmm
well the new season of saturday night Live started last night , & the opening was a real kick, I new in a flash when I saw Shara Palin that Tina Fye would be back on SNL as the SP impersonator, , but after the opening its SNL skit with her & Amy who can do Hillary better than Hillary , well the show just went down hill from there , weekend update was good, other than that the show just seams lost , the actors are tallented people & the substance just isnt there , the "NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME PLAYERS" , were new & fresh, for you young people the not ready for prime time players were the cast of the orginal saturday night live , dan acroid, john balushi, gilda radner,jane curtain,garette morris,chevy chase & if I am missing anyone I am sorry, that was a LONG time ago I just dont have the brain power to remember to breath at times now I gotta remember stuff that happened 35 years ago hahaha , no way that will happen !
well I did sleep in verry late this morning it was after 11 am when I got up, so I had a little yogurt for breakfast & will be cooking a rib roast today to keep the boss happy, that needs to get in the oven asap, so this posting will be short today, like my memorie hahahaha ,
The moving wall ( Vietnam memorial ) is here in Beaver County therre was a ride to the wall last night , in the rain about 2 miles of bikes in the parade , AWSUME Sight .

I was rummaging through the humidors last week & found a stick that was a bit beat up from being in the humi a few years the band had popped ( the glue just let go ) off & was still in the box, it was a Monte corona a gift grom uncle fidel , it lasted over an hour & it was the sweeeeeeeest smoke I have had in a long time , paired with a dark roast coffee from Columbia & a single malt from the Islay region it was a taste to make the heart race the & skip a beat it was that good ! hahahaha
, dammmmm its all ready after noonnhere in da burgh i gota get this on line asap , it is supposed to be the Sunday MORNING SMOKE not the afternnon smoke ! , oh well better luck next week ! Enjoy, Vince

[Vince]

Good morning , it is Sunday 21st of sept. 2008 , the POWER is back on the cable is working & the phones are ringing, & the TV is working , a week after hurricane IKE & I have a buddy with his power lines still on the ground, , here we are in the greater PITTSBURGH Pa area & the damage we got from IKE , is far more than I ever thought we would get , we had peaks of wind gusts at 81 MPH, a far cry from what TEXAS got but dammmmm man this is Pittsburgh, we are not close to the ocean here , it is a 24 HOUR drive from my home to NOLA , you would think that the stom would disapate a bit by the time it got here , we have been cutting trees & replacing shingles all week, a lot of the local supermarkets lost EVERYTHING in the chill chests & freezers, the produce was growing hair , so everything needed to be sanitised before restocking , I can only have a LOT of sympathy for the people on the gulf coast , the shop was closed a day & that was it , we did get power back down town fast, but out here in the BOONIES , it took some time , there are according to the news about 900 homes still with out power , should be back on for most of them by Tuesday , dammmm over a week with out power, how easy it is to forget the CONVIENCE of electricty , it runs our life, after a few day with out it I wonder how the AMISH do with out it , but I guess we as a people surivived a few years with out it hahaha, I guess we are the begining of the power grid generation , & indoor plumbing, I do remember the old outhouse as a kid , but that was way back in the dark ages , come to think about it , our camp in Tionesta Pa had an out house till about 20 years ago & we still have the pot belly stove to heat the place , but there is electricty there so we do have a few Comforts , & one day soon I might instal a hot water tank , hahahahaha , hell NO , its RUSTIC with out it , I never go up in the winter anymore , gave up hunting a long time ago , , you shoot it & clean it , I just cook it now same with Fish, , my fish cleaning days are OVER , you put it on the counter ready for the stove, I will take care of it then !
with the clean up from IKE taken care of lets move over to the cigars, AHHH yeas the relaxation begins , I have been digging DEEEEEP into the humidor this week celabrating life all week, I have forgone my standard Don Carlos #3 for a Casa Fuente this morning & have the usual KONA , what a match this is , dammm I wish I could have one Casa Fuente a week
BUT untill I hit the lottery BIG , I will stick to the Don Carlos , when you get right down to it is one hell of a great Cigar for sure,
I have a pot of Indian Monsoon coffee wating to be brewed after the Kona is done .
I have decided NOT to Cook today , I am giving my self the day off we are having stuffed Porkchops for supper tonight ala Roma Catering , I will pick them up about 3:30 /4:00 pm today , green beans & parsley potatos , all I will need to do is zap them in the microwave for 30 seconds to reheat them & supper is Surved ! Dammm I love electricty !!!
the Boys are having a great time at school, but I do miss the saturday morning soccor games yea like a TOOTH ACHE , not that I didnt like watching my grandson play, but it was cold & wet & the asshats didnt enjoy the aroma of my cigar & I was segeragated ( by my own choice to the endzone behind the goal ) as to NOT offend, some yuppie scoccor mom , had there been a MILF in the mix I might have stood my ground & stared at her , but since there was nothing to look at but the game, I figured moving was the best thing I could do , but since he isnt playing this year , I can sleep in on saturday ! AMEN !!!!
The Migrating Birds are moving south , I havent seen a Robin in a few days maybe longer , & we have a few new visitors to the feeder a large influx of cardinals, we had 2 or 3 comming & going all summer but we had about 10 here this week all at the same time & the wild canaries are showing up a lot more than they did all summer ,, the bluejays are still being the BULLYS of the feeder & the doves just make noise & shit all over the place , but they are FUN to watch, honrey bastards, they will jump anything !!
Thats about all I have from the burgh this week, please feel free to post whats going on in your neck of the woods .......... Enjoy, Vince

[Ceedee]

Glad that things are getting back to normal up in da Burgh! Hard to imagine you guys got socked so bad by Ike. That is really nuts man. Well, keep the coffee brewing and enjoy an Don Carlos or two on this fine Sunday Vince. Thanks again for sharing, it's always a pleasure to get a peek into your word Sir!

Cheers!

CD

[Dan-cl]

haha wow vince you just post everywhere buddy ur definiatly way more active here than ccom though. anyways i responded in the thread at ccom but ya im glad u had a good smoke to take tht edge off.

take care

[MaduroSmoke]

Wow didn't think it would tear anything up that far. Glad to hear things are getting back to normal there. I will be keeping an eye on this post.

[Vince]

Good morning , it is Sunday 28 Sept. '08 & we have been invaded by STINK BUGS , there here thats all I can say, they are EVERY PLACE you look, , this little import from Asia has no known enemys here , dosent stay away from cigar smoke , citronilla , RAID or moth balls , they are harmless, & dont bite BUT when you smash them or they Feel threated, they let out this sticky GOOOO that Stinks like hell, the Birds dont eat them, you cant smash them but they are comming in the bathroom exaust fan covering the doors & windown & just making a MESS of everything, they have my wife freeked out so bad , I think I might need to medicate her , they fly & land on everything & anything, , we cant sit out on the back deck with out a fly swatter , & then you get the smell, , & I thought living next to a cow pasture was bad, this is 10 times worse ! OH well it is Cool & rainy this morning & Sept is almost over , the election BS is in full swing & I did listen to the canidates for a few minutes Friday Night , who won? well the American People DID NOT WIN , if this is the best we have to offer............. well I have listened to a bunch of 10 & 12 year olds who didnt wine about each other & carry on better conversations than McCain & Obama ...............
BAIL OUT OF WALL STREET ... SOCIALISUM at its worst, , NO golden retirement plans for the CEO's , incarseration for a few of them , run the company into the ground & get a 25 million dollar BONUS .. Dammm I hate to get political with the postting but they JUST PISS ME OFF !
RANT OVER

so lets get back to the stink bugs , if ANYONE has any idea what to do with them, or how to get rid of them PLEASE post smonthing about it !

we have had a dry week since the BIG BLOWJOB from IKE , but last night we did get a little thunder & a nice light rain, the grass is growing again . dammmm is that all I am going to do this morning COMPLANE? , who knows I just type in what comes to mind , well I have been up for one hour all ready & havent even put the coffee on, dammmm I am slipping , the KONA is ready to grind BUT I am not, just cant seam to get motivated this morning, so far today I have went out to the end of the driveway & brought the sunday paper in , , didnt even open it up & look at the headlines . But I did catch a little blurb on the radio last night that we should all smoke one for Paul Numan ,,,,,,,,, Cool Hand LUKE , Butch Cassidy the STING , RIP PAUL.
I have a nice pair of T Bones for the grill this afternoon, & a sweet potato to grill right along with themjust a little herb rub for the beef & olive oil for the spuds , add a little heat & soon a wonderfull meal will be on the table

the shop was busy but the sales are slower this month than we were hoping for but we have started to load up for the Holiday season, lets just hope that wall street rebounds & Main street gets a lift ........OR ...... I might have a WHOLE LOT OF CIGARS TO SMOKE hahahahaha

The Boys are being boys,, the older one is taking a class at the local comunity college for some sort of computer cartoon program, & the younger one is learning to play BATMAN on the base gutar............. dammmmmmmm !


so here we are the end of september & all I have been doing this past week was work at the shop & get rid of BUGs the rest of the time

I grabbed an H.Upman Signature corona this morning ,,,,,,,,,,,,, dont know why , but I will give it a shot this morning


the Boss just got up, seams like I was typing to loud & I woke her well I didnt even make coffee yet as I didnt want to wake her up, , the computer is as far away fro the bed room as it can be BUT I managed to get her started all ready .................. 38 years of this ? dammm I must be a masocist !!!!


well if you have any idea on what to do with the bugs, the dammmmm birds dont ever like them please post some thing to help me get rid of them, they made the news here in da burgh so every one is loaded
Enjoy, Vince

[cboor001]

Thanks Vince... hope the guitar lessons go well. As far as the bugs, in Louisiana we get similar bugs, but they are stuck together. Hence their name... Lovebugs. The like bright white and yellows, so if you are wearing either or your car is bright, watch out. They flock to you. They have been known to take paint off of vehicles. Can't think of anything to help your problem, so good luck.

[Vince]

Originally Posted by cboor001

Thanks Vince... hope the guitar lessons go well. As far as the bugs, in Louisiana we get similar bugs, but they are stuck together. Hence their name... Lovebugs. The like bright white and yellows, so if you are wearing either or your car is bright, watch out. They flock to you. They have been known to take paint off of vehicles. Can't think of anything to help your problem, so good luck.

thanks, but if you have any idea I sure could use the help ! Enjoy, Vince

[poriggity-cl]

Stinkbugs are the worst.. There is no known ailment for them I don't think. Nice posts brother.

Scott

[ssuriano]

Sorry to hear about the stink bugs. Thanks for a good read.

[Vince]

Good Morning, it is Sunday OCT.5,2008... did I say OCT? dammmmmm it is OCT all ready, I am not ready for it yet ! well time marches on & believe it or not we have passed the atuminal equnox & the season has changed from Summer to fall, winter to fallow dammmmm , well its the cycle of life , seams just like yesterday my daughter was in diapers, & here we are , she has 2 boys of her own, Time flys when you are having fun !
the cold snap has driven the stink bugs inside, what a mess, Raid seams to slow them down but dosent kill them on contact, like when you spray a wasp , BAM it falls to the ground in an instant , thses bugs just keep going ,like the energizer bunny..... first freeze they will be gone till spring, , I think I will have the attic fogged & the bathroom exaust fans detoxified , the little buggers come in the exaust fan some how & end up in the light , what a mess ! so lets move on to the VP debate ... OK enough of that !
Globial warming.. ...... yes we have it if it wasnt for global warming I would be sitting in an ICE field right now, the great lakes were formed when the polar ice cap MELTED in the last Ice age , back just a few hundred years the LA basin had smog in it before the white man ever saw the area , so lets not get in to a heated arguement about globial warming & the smog that we are making with INDUSTRY, , this BIG blue ball we live on will take care of it self, ............ here I am in the PITTSBURGH area , over time we have been covered by the polar ice cap & warmed by the tropical waters as remements of palms & ferns have been unearthed here , at one time it was tropical & in an other time it was artic, well if that isnt NATURAL I dont know what is !!!!

OK enough BS lets get down to the milk & cookies , Friday Night we hosted a NUB & Oliva event at the shop, it went well for a Football friday night , & we are goint to do it again this comming Friday night with H.Upman maduro & Omar Ortez cigars , & we plan on doing a different tasting every Friday night along with the BYOB party we have every friday, we went through a bottle of single malt & 3 pots of coffee ( just for the customes ) I had ONE all by my self, I drank the good stuff & gave the moochers the Maxwell house .............. half of them wouldnt know a good cup of coffee if it slapped there Momma , adding 3 packs of sugar & a quart of milk to the half cup of coffee , , , , , , , they must be butterlys & taste with thier feet !

Lat week I got a day with my #1 grandson & this week I get grandson #2 , nothing like quality time goofing off with the grandsons , just the 2 of us doing what ever they want to do, I aked #2 where his favorite place to eat was , hoping he would say my place but he said SCHOOL !!!! DAMMMM the ladys in the Barfatouum rated higher than McDonalds Burgherking Wendys or even red lobster, I felt slighted BUT he is only 10 & thinks Mac & cheese comes out of a little blue box ...............

I have been bitten by the new car feaver bug, I keep looking BUT dammmmmmmm the prices I have a 2000 Sable with 170K on it , I am getting 20 MPG on it , it is comfortable & PAID FOR ................

wall street ............... I know why they are called brokers, Bail out my stinky ass , 300M people in the USA, Give them all 2 Million bucks each in cash, cost 600 M but NO we got to be socialist about it & bail out the fat cats to the tune of 700 billion or MORE,, hey were was Uncle Sam when Drexel Burnum Lanbert took 950K off of me with the junk bond king Milken , the rotten basted paid a 3 BILLION dollar fine & shut down DBL & spent 18 months at a federial country club & still had 5 Billion in assets in off shore accounts the government never did get any of it.... am I pissed , you betcha

On a lighter note I have a nice set of TBONES & some late corn on the cob to go on the grill later today, seams like all we eat on Sunday is beef, , chuck roast in the winter when we can fire up the oven & steak when its time to grill, but the boss is a beef lover so thats what I make her, can you believe it we have been married almost 40 years now & she still wants her beef well done ..... a tuff hunk of leather dry & taste less, when I am slurping down a raer or medium rare juicy hunk of beast , but she will not budge .... my parents were the same way my dad wanted his DONE & my Mother was a rare person (in more ways than one hahaha ) well I grew up seeing both ends of the scale tasting both the rare & the well done, no need telling all of you the outcome is there hahahaha, KNOCK off its horns whip its ass & SERVE it MOOOOOOOOLISHOUS


I craced open a few "ISOMS" this week & enjoyed the series D # 4 as well as the Hoya Solomon , both were great smokes but nothing alike the hoya way a much bigger smke but it didnt last that much longer than the smaller series D only about 20 minuts difference in the time of the 2 cigars but at twice the size , , , , , , well I cant say which one was better, like back when I was dating a few different girls , they all were great in Bed hell I was thankfull for anything at that time of my life , being young & dumb & full of .......... you get the idea , well anyway they were all good, who was better, ??? I have no idea , I would have to try them all again today hahahaha , yea like the boss would let that happen hahaha, oh yea I could smoke the cigars agin, , , , but it might still be a toss up on them ! hahaha
Not much else going on here in da burgh .... OH SHIT last night was the 250 anniversery of the incorperation of the city called PITTSBURGH , FIREWORKS , from 17 differnt launch sites in the city, some from the tops of the sky scrapers in the downtown, some from barges in the rivers , from the bridges crossing the 3 rivers in Pittsburgh , a tribute to Fred Rogers & the people who made PITTSBURGH what it is today ..
Time for more KNOA & a Don Carlos #3 ...... Enjoy, Vince